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Coog
04-03-2012, 18:28
On 3 April, 1836 the Republic of Texas schooner Invincible sinks the Mexican schooner Montezuma.

Captain Jeremiah Brown was ordered to defend the Texas coast and seek out and engage the Mexican man-of-war Montezuma. The 8 gun Invincible cruised south to the mouth of the Rio Grande, where on April 3, 1836, Invincible encountered the 20 gun Man-of-War in an area then-called Brazos Santiago (now called Boca Chica) at the mouth of Laguna Madre. After an exchange of broadsides the Montezuma ran aground on a sandbar, and her crew escaped. Invincible barraged the Mexican cruiser until she was destroyed